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Work was kind of crazy today. Not bad--I mean, it's hard to have a really horrible day when you're just standing behind a register ringing people up. But Mike texted Pat last night to say he wasn't coming to work (supposedly he had a funeral to go to, but we all know he thought he just wasn't needed because there were supposed to be two other checkers), and then when Janet showed up she was really sick and they ended up sending her home. Jimmy got back from vacation today, so he stayed until about 4:45, but then it was just Pat and me... with Tony outside loading mulch and such. Pat has apparently been awake over two days straight... his dad is in the hospital for something pretty serious and he's been trying to take care of that when he's not at work. So his temper was pretty frayed. I felt bad for him, but he didn't say anything mean to me--he was just glad I was there.

Will be glad when summer session 1 is over though, because then my work schedule will change and maybe not be quite so nonstop. I get up early all week now unless I oversleep, which happened Wednesday. Tomorrow and Sunday I have to be to work at 7, and damn but I'm tired. At least tomorrow afternoon I'll have plenty of time for an extended nap.

Need the money though. Danny and I are both feeling stretched thin. When I get paid Monday, all but $35 of my money will go straight to bills, and that's including the leftover money from this week's paycheck. Although the Monday after that my paycheck will be pretty much mine. But I need to save, build up funds again, if possible.

( Transformers, and writing. )

I'm really craving chocolate. I've been craving it a lot lately. I'm not on my period or anything... maybe it's just the birth control. Anyway I could really use a chocolate milkshake; I've been craving those especially, although brownies might suffice if necessary.

I'm all caught up on Avatar and I can't wait until the new episodes in July. I've been stalking some Avatar communities looking for Zutara fic and other cool stuff. Some of the fanart is amazing. I also found some hilarious macros. My favorite was definitely an inspirational poster-style picture of King Bumi that says "MAD GENIUS: There's a thin line between genius and madness. Bumi uses that line as a jump rope." I cracked up hardcore.

And what's with all this Saint Jun, patron saint of Zutara business? Did I miss something?

Well anyway, I talked to Sheri at work today. She's the manager who's been taking care of our store until we get a manager of our own, and she's really nice and good at what she does. And dedicated. I asked her what would happen at my six month review since it's coming up soon and George is gone. She told me she'd ask the shift supervisors about my performance and use their judgment in completing my review (and the others that are coming up). She also said that I should have been rehired at $8.16 an hour, the wage I left at, and George was wrong to rehire me at $8/hr. She's going to look into it. I'm looking forward to the possibility of backpay; that would be sweet. Plus she said that as long as I'm judged meets expectations at my review, I'll be bumped up to $8.8/hr, which would be amazing.

Yay!

So I went tanning for the first time ever today. Like with a tanning bed. It was only eight dollars, but I also bought a packet of lotion which made it eleven or something like that... which still isn't bad, in my opinion. I'm hoping to get a good tan this summer and some base tanning at a salon will help a lot, I think. Plus Danny may think tan lines are sexy, but even if I do get them I don't want my boobs to be shining white and the rest of me brown, you know? At least a light brown base for my boobs so they don't blind you when I take my bra off.

I also stopped by the College Park Starbucks and this time results were actually promising. The current manager is a woman, I think she's pretty new there (though not to the company), and she seemed genuinely interested in taking me on. She said that if I don't hear from her by Monday, I should call her. And she was very curious in when I wanted to start, now or in the fall, and I told her anytime is good but I was hoping to at least start by the beginning of the semester. I gave her my summer availability and everything.

Danny and I washed our cars today and finished season two of Avatar. He doesn't want to watch season three until it's complete and he can watch it all in a row without waiting for episodes, but I'm definitely going to watch it as soon as possible even if it means waiting. Which is good since it means when I'm bored at home while he's at work I'll be able to watch Avatar instead of having to wait for him to be home. But it's also bad because it means I can't watch it when he is home, and we had to finish season two early on his day off so I can't watch any until tomorrow. And not many then because I'm going to see Alicia. (Damn thunderstorms, they attacked our plans on Saturday and they're threatening tomorrow too.)

But man, season two was great. I'd watched most of it already, but all disjointed and with huge gaps of time in the middle... and out of order. So getting the complete season, in order, and relatively close together... was amazing. I love Iroh so much. And I liked Toph much better this time around. And I've always liked Sokka... and Momo. And Zuko is frustrating!love. And I totally missed Suki's reappearance sans makeup when I was watching disjointed episodes on TV. Hm.

Gonna watch AVP: Requiem now. Bluray. Peace.

I'm watching an episode of Avatar on demand. "The Beach." So far it's pretty fucking ridiculous and just makes me go, "Why did they have to have this episode? It's retarded." Angsty!Zuko with girlfriend-romance-insecurity issues (is it wrong that it makes me sick that she's not Katara)? (But I guess it's better, if he did that "You like him, don't you" shit with Katara I'd have to say "Grow up and get a life, wangstmobile.")

They all look so different. Zuko's emo-boy hair, Sokka's loose covers-entire-head hair, Aang's... hair... Jeez.

LOL. Iron Rock Man Aang.

Well anyway. I've got 1,500 words so far on Names. Which is better than nothing. Keth just sold Aerlun. Which ends at a break, which may not technically be a good idea in my case, but it's when the main story starts to pick up. I'll begin next time with meeting Silk.

And I spent so much time procrastinating on h_e and poking around ws to see if it was updated =D Gotta love/hate the internet.

Anyway I have a strong urge to fanfic except I'm either not up-to-date enough or have been away too long from my favorite fandoms. Except Zelda, I could always do Zelda, but I have zero plot bunnies there. It would be easy to come up with one but I'm not going to try to get ideas for fanfic.